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Summary

Blending step-by-step guidance with frequent practice, this book helps readers cultivate an understanding of sight singing and acquire the necessary skills to hear mentally a piece of printed music "without" using an instrument. Arranging its 21 chapters to study both pitch and rhythm, this book presents melodies and exercises that enable readers to develop the skills of reading pitch, reading rhythm, and combining these two essential elements. The Sixth Edition contains nearly 1200 melodies taken from a wide spectrum of music literature and the world's folk music. For professionals with a career in music, music education, and composition.

Table of Contents

Preface

xiii

Acknowledgments

xv

PART I MELODY: DIATONIC INTERVALS RHYTHM: DIVISION OF THE BEAT

Rhythm: Simple Time (Meter); the Beat and Its Division into Two Parts

1

(13)

Rhythmic Reading

2

(2)

(R). The quarter note as the beat unit. Beat-note values and larger only

4

(1)

(R). The quarter note as the beat unit and its division. Dotted notes and tied notes

5

(1)

(R). Two-part drills

6

(2)

(R). Note values other than the quarter note as beat values

8

(3)

(R). Two-part drills

11

(3)

Melody: Scale-Line Melodies Rhythm: Simple Time (Meter); the Beat and its Division into Two Parts

14

(12)

Major keys, treble clef, the quarter note as the beat unit. Key signatures with no more than three sharps or three flats

15

(4)

Bass clef

19

(3)

Other time signatures

22

(2)

Duets

24

(2)

Melody: Intervals from the Tonic Triad, Major Keys Rhythm: Simple Time

26

(20)

Major keys, treble clef, intervals of the third, fourth, fifth, and octave from the tonic triad. The quarter note as the beat unit

27

(6)

Bass clef

33

(3)

Interval of the sixth; minor sixth, 3 up to 1, and major sixth, 5 up to 3, or descending

36

(2)

The half note and the eighth note as beat units

38

(1)

Duets

39

(3)

Key signatures with five, six, and seven sharps or flats

42

(4)

Melody: Intervals from the Tonic Triad, Major Keys Rhythm: Compound Time (Meter); the Beat and Its Division into Three Parts

46

(17)

(R). Rhythmic reading: The dotted quarter note as the beat unit. Single lines and two-part drills